A fabulous bumper book of facts containing everything you ever wanted to know about sport, medicine, space, ghosts, inventions and much, much more!

Did you know that...

By the time a person turns fifty, their nails will have grown a total of two metres.

When it first appeared, Coca Cola, without the fizz, was sold as a medicine.

There are 400 billion stars in the Milky Way.

In October 1997, a Yorkshire Terrier was rescued after being accidentally sucked up by a Swansea street-cleaning vacuum cleaner!

There are said to be more ghosts per square mile in Britain than in any other country.

A kangaroo can hop at up to 40 miles an hour.

A sneeze can go up to 3.5 metres!